Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu is a fun and innocently sexy romance-comedy anime from back in 2008.
The story centers around Yuuto Ayase and his classmate Haruka Nogizaka. While Yuuto is rather ordinary, Haruka is very attractive, intelligent and rich. Due to this, she is the school’s most unattainable girl and is so idolized that her classmates give her the French nicknames “Nuit Étoile” (The Silver Star of the Night) and “Lumière du Clavier” (The Shining Princess on the Piano). One day, when Yuuto goes to the school library to return a book, he stumbles across Haruka and her darkest secret—she is a diehard fan of anime, manga and the otaku culture. Yuuto promises to keep her secret hidden and the two become close friends. Yuuto does his best to help Haruka with her secret hobby while developing his relationship with her.
Fanservice classification: LIGHT
Contains the following content:
Bathing Beach Episode Loli Maid Panty-shots Pool episode Swimsuits Underwear UndressingBack in 2008 I was only really four years in to being an anime fan and I was already deep into the otaku culture side of things, so this series resonated with me a bit. More importantly, it was a great example of the moe craze back then, with adorable girls you couldn’t help but want to protect and light fanservice to elicit their sexy appeal.
The series also had unusually good art and animation quality so there’s plenty of eye candy to admire.
Some of our first introductions to the titular Nogizaka Haruki come in the form of her falling over and giving us a nice glimpse of her panties.
This seems to be a trend for this show as the rival love interest, Shiina is also treated to the same scenario!
Haruka’s cute and precocious little sister, Mika and her maid, Nanami are caught evesdropping on Haruka and Yuuto. More importantly, the viewer can spy some little-sister shimapan!
Shiina’s back at it again, giving a top-rate panty shot of her crotch adorning pink shimapan. The slight cameltoe is a nice touch.
In a b-story of an episode, Mika and her maid go and try on underwear, which seems to be a hobby of theirs!
Nice, animated loli in underwear scenes are hard to find these days!
Time for a school pool episode! The girls are looking quite sexy in their school swimsuits!
The classic sexy teacher character shows them all up with a ridiculous swimsuit that does little to hide her voluptuous figure.
Shiina showers..
Yuuto comes across Shiina undressing..
But in a shocking twist, she doesn’t scream and hit him but instead seems to like it.
A brief dip in the onsen for some of the girls. Bonus points for lack of steam!
The series has a late beach episode which features Haruka in a very sexy bikini.
And the maids get in on the action too..
When she almost drowns in the water, Yuuto is tricked into giving her mouth-to-mouth CPR only to find that she’s ok.
The girls who pranked him run away laughing.
The second season ramps up the fanservice even more, so look forward to my post on that!
